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What started as an older man’s joke about wanting to adopt a five-year-old instead of starting from scratch, Instant Family was inspired by writer and director Sean Anders’ real-life family. Pete (Mark Wahlberg) “accidentally” makes the joke to his wife Ellie (Rose Byrne) not wanting to be become that “old dad” everyone knows and before you know it, the two are traveling down to road toward foster care adoptions. After numerous classes taught by two caseworkers (Octavia Spencer and Tig Notaro), the two meet three kids at a “foster fair” gathering. Lizzy (Isabela Moner) is the 15-year-old older sister who has protectively looked after her younger siblings Juan (Gustavo Quiroz) and Lita (Julianna Gamiz) while their mother has been incarcerated. She’s a tough cookie with trust issues. Juan is both accident prone and highly sensitive and Lita is super sweet as long as she gets to eat potato chips at every meal. Almost overnight they become an “instant family” and everything g…

Ben Stiller’s first Night
at the Museum (2006) was a fun and clever movie about a museum security
guard who is surprised to find on his first night that all of the artifacts
come to life when the sun goes down. When the sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, came out in 2009, it
proved that all involved should have not have bothered. The film took away all
of the likeable characters in favor to introduce new ones who were not as
charming as the original set and featured a convoluted storyline. Many will be
surprised to learn that the second sequel, Night
at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, rights all of the wrongs of the second
film and finishes off the series nicely.

This time around, Director Shawn Levy and crew bring back
everything that worked well with the first movie and improved upon it. There
appears to be no reference to the second movie, including the character of
Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), who played the love interest for Larry Daley, the
security guard (Ben Stiller). It is as if she, or any of the other Smithsonian
characters for that matter, never existed. Instead, the story takes place years
later with Larry convincing Dr. McPhee (Ricky Gervais) that the characters come
to life as a form of special effects. All the characters come together for a
special gala at the museum to put on a show when some strange force causes the
characters to malfunction (for lack of a better word). This leads Larry to
travel to the British Museum in hopes of finding an answer. However, he is
surprised to find out that he packed along a few stowaways as well. This makes
his job tougher for him, but a lot more fun for us.

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